Arms Race: Nations Hurry To Develop Hypersonic Weapons

There is one big and glaring sign that the United States seeks to thrust the globe back into an arms race. John Bolton is in Moscow to discuss the United States’ intent to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

The end of the 31-year-old treaty signifies that potentially, world powers will return to an arms race mentality. But there are some that believe the arms race is already upon us. According to NPR, over the past year, the U.S., China, and Russia have all stepped up efforts to develop a new kind of missile; a weapon that can fly faster and farther than almost anything in existence. This kind of missile is known as a hypersonic weapon.

These types of weapons would have the ability to travel at five times the speed of sound or more. They could strike at a target while evading missile defenses and hit almost anywhere without any warning deep inside enemy territory.

In March, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his nation had successfully tested a hypersonic weapon known as the Kinzhal, the Russian word for “dagger.” The video below shows the Russian “Dagger” which is one of the hypersonic weapons currently being developed.

But the Chinese aren’t lagging behind in this new arms race either. In August, China said it had conducted the first successful tests of a hypersonic prototype called Starry Sky 2. It flew for more than five minutes and reached speeds above 4,000 mph, according to state media.

Physicist James Acton at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who has studied hypersonic weaponry. Acton says these developments are just the beginning. “Over the next few years we’re likely to see a lot of testing,” Acton says.

Because of these recent advancements in hypersonic weaponry, Mike Griffin, the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said he was worried the U.S. was losing its edge in hypersonics. “We did the groundbreaking research. They’ve chosen to weaponize it. We need to respond,” Griffin said at a forum on missile defense on Capitol Hill, according to NPR.

And the U.S. responded by stepping up their hypersonic weapons program. Earlier this year, the Air Force awarded $1.4 billion in contracts to Lockheed Martin to begin working on air-launched hypersonic weapons. Other agencies, such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), are also working on hypersonic weapons.

Acton says advanced materials and supercomputers are helping hypersonic development. “We are seeing Russia, the United States, and China all conducting hypersonic tests,” he says. “I would be surprised if there were not hypersonic weapons deployed within the next decade.”

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“There is one big and glaring sign that the United States seeks to thrust the globe back into an arms race. John Bolton is in Moscow to discuss the United States’ intent to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.”

So WHY is TRUMP looking / willing to withdraw from this treaty ??? For the same reason he has withdrawn from the various Trade Treaties or has looked to renegotiate them: they weren’t fair.

In the case of the Russian Treaty cited, Russia has violated that treaty with new missiles banned under the Treaty. The result is a One Way Treaty. There is no reason to keep a Treaty in effect if one side is violating that treaty. 🙂

China has no border with the United States. China has no bases on the border with the United States. China is surrounded by bases of the United States and this is its aggressiveness? The problem of the United States is the same as that of Germany under Hitler. An exceptional nation wants to rule the world. This desire cost the entire world community 70 million. man and ended with the destruction of the exceptional and their allies and accomplices. Maybe it’s time to stop before it’s too late?

The United States believes that Russia may have violated the treaty. Russia shows that in Romania there are launchers that violate the treaty. Instead of resolving the problems, they decided to withdraw from the treaty, creating one common problem, living on earth for people. The essence of the cancellation of the contract is to ensure that the missiles reach the territory of the enemy faster than a person can think. Therefore, the decision to start the destruction will be taken by a computer, for normal people this is the frenzy of the country’s leadership.

As is the norm the Military is preparing for the next war using the last wars weapons.
Hypersonics, orbiting, highly maneuverable high power lasers. Rail guns. Hunter killer high speed torpedoes sitting on the seabed, lying in wait for years. Blue Laser submarine detection systems.
Gama emitter satellite killers. That may be the future.
I’m sure the military has stuff in development.

The USA has kinetic weapons in space already that are more powerful than nuclear weapons. The Air Force Space Plane has been in orbit this last time for over a year carrying these 22 foot long projectiles.

At this point in time the USA has the ability to defeat both Russia & China simultaneously without nuclear weapons, and that does not include the TR3-B triangle spacecraft.

That is why the NWO has been anxious to find a pretext for war with Russia. Russia has great technology but most of their weapon systems are not yet in mass production and they just don’t have enough to compete. 🙂

Reese’s peanut butter cups of course, if you can keep them in stock !!! Hard candies ??? M&M peanuts. They melt in your mouth not in your hands. And of course peppermint stars , for a cheap sugar rush. 🙂

I don’t know. I think our ultra top secret weapon that allows something go go in somewhere and instantly come out somewhere else a long way away is more effective. I will post the link if I can find it again. Utterly amazing!

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